Posted by: jeffmooney | March 20, 2008

Dawkin’s Moral Indignation?

The Parchment and Pen guys have posted an interesting article concerning Dawkins professed ability to navigate on the matters of good and evil. Dawkins expresses his own ability to navigate the character of God yet seems to express different ideas as to science and society in his work. Here is an excerpt.

In his book The God Delusion, the new atheist Richard Dawkins asserts that Yahweh is truly a moral monster: “What makes my jaw drop is that people today should base their lives on such an appalling role model as Yahweh—and even worse, that they should bossily try to force the same evil monster (whether fact or fiction) on the rest of us.”In this particular blog, I would like to address a glaring inconsistency, which I mentioned in passing in an earlier blog. How can Dawkins launch any moral accusation at all? This is utterly inconsistent with his total denial of evil and goodness elsewhere:

[ht:Parchment and Pen]

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It seems like a good deal of the new atheists make this mistake over and over by saying religion is the cause of evil when they don’t even believe in the concept of evil to begin with. It must be frustrating to have to argue against yourself all the time : )

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